Wanderings of Artist Lindy Cook Severns

Moving On

My Big Bend Artist blog, as well as my Outlaw Pastelist blog have moved to my website. The word press blogs will still be here for a few more weeks, but to keep following me, you’ll need to travel to https://www.lindycookseverns.com/blog/

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I couldn’t keep managing so many different venues, and I think you’ll enjoy the simplicity of the new location.

Thanks for reading here–I will be able to post more regularly on the new site. Promise.

Lindy Cook Severns

My Blog for Artists: Outlaw Pastelist: On Coloring Outside the Lines

My Big Bend Artist blog, as well as my Outlaw Pastelist blog have moved to my website. The word press blogs will still be here for a few more weeks, but to keep following me, you’ll need to travel to https://www.lindycookseverns.com/blog/ Sorry for the inconvenience, but I couldn’t keep managing so many different venues, and I think […]

Plein Air painting is tinted with a mystique that all too often intimidates artists into never venturing outside to paint. It’s a big, scary world out there. It’s also a lovely, inspiring world, one just waiting to fill your senses. When painting on location, an artist willingly surrenders security and accepts vulnerability in exchange […]

Sketchbook Journaling in Pen and Ink with Lindy Cook Severns Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas The Workshop Saturday, February 20 2016 9 am til 4 pm at the Museum on the Sul Ross State University campus Workshop Reception for you and a guest Friday, February 19 2016 5 pm til 7 pm Museum […]

I’m primarily a pastel painter, and I blog about that here. But not always. I’m also an oil painter. This summer, for a few weeks, I returned to my oil painting roots. Why (even temporarily) abandon my beloved pastel sticks? Because I’m an artist, and as an artist, I like to mix things up. Compelled to paint something different, […]

A blank white canvas (or board, or piece of paper) is clamped to your easel. You’re an artist. A creative. You can turn that blank white canvas into anything. Anything! WOW! ANYTHING! Oh, dear. Anything. At least for me, “Anything” is overwhelming. There’s a fine line between freedom and anarchy, between creativity and chaos. I […]

Our Life in West Texas

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